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Nurse Practitioner Registrations<br />
The number of nurses<br />
registered in the nurse<br />
practitioner scope of practice<br />
has grown significantly with<br />
77 registered in the 2016-2017<br />
year. There are 242 nurse<br />
practitioners currently<br />
practising.<br />
Refinement of the<br />
registration process for<br />
NP applications<br />
In early 2016 the Nursing Council<br />
piloted a refined registration process<br />
for nurse practitioner applicants. No<br />
standards were changed – rather<br />
assessment aspects were completed<br />
at different stages and the desk audit<br />
was refined to allow a shortened panel<br />
interview that focused purely on the<br />
clinical competencies.<br />
The evaluation of the refined process<br />
demonstrated that a thorough<br />
assessment against the nurse<br />
practitioner non-clinical competencies<br />
could be completed at the desk audit<br />
and a thorough assessment of the<br />
clinical competencies at the panel<br />
interview. This resulted in shorter panel<br />
interviews – it was possible to complete<br />
two in one day. The refined process<br />
was transitioned out to all applicants in<br />
mid-2016.<br />
Marae graduation for<br />
nurse practitioners<br />
In a groundbreaking and symbolic move,<br />
two senior Māori nurses were<br />
assessed for registration as nurse<br />
practitioners on their marae.<br />
Both nurses work for Te Tohu o Te<br />
Ora o Ngāti Awa, a large Māori health<br />
provider in the Bay of Plenty; their primary<br />
healthcare practice is grounded<br />
in kaupapa Māori.<br />
Nursing Council representatives were<br />
formally welcomed onto the marae, and<br />
the pōwhiri was also attended by whānau,<br />
hapū, nursing and other colleagues, and<br />
students from the nursing programme<br />
at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in<br />
Whakatane.<br />
The nurses said having the assessment<br />
on the marae brought the way they<br />
practise alive and made the cases and<br />
challenges outlined in their portfolios<br />
more real.<br />
The marae assessment was seen as<br />
a practical way of putting the Nursing<br />
Council’s values of partnership into<br />
practice. It has given the organisation<br />
the confidence to say that while the<br />
standards required for nurse practitioners<br />
are consistent across the board,<br />
assessment contexts can vary.<br />
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